Tag: Suicide

Suicide bomber kills four civilians in Afghanistan

A suicide bomber struck a crowded Afghan bazaar on Monday, killing four civilians and wounding another 14 in the east of the country, the...

Three Afghan police killed in suicide attack on HQ

Suicide attackers armed with rifles and disguised in police uniforms Sunday stormed a traffic police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan and killed three officers, officials...

Six dead in suicide blast at Kabul military hospital

Six medical students were killed and 23 others wounded in a Taliban suicide attack at Afghanistan’s main military hospital in Kabul on Saturday, officials...

Hara-kiri – a 3D film on Japanese ritual suicide

Anyone expecting a 3D film on Japanese ritual suicide by the director of such ultra-gory fare as "Ichi the Killer" to have guts and...

Youth commits suicide in Kasur

A young man committed suicide at Ghati Doctor Khalid Wali in the jurisdiction of Chunian Police Station. Reportedly, Allah Rakha exchanged hot words with...

Death toll in Charsadda suicide attack climbs to 98

The death toll from a double suicide bombing targeting a police training centre in Charsadda has risen to 98, police said on Tuesday. Taliban...

Rare suicide bombing shocks Kazakhstan

A suicide bomber Tuesday blew himself up outside the headquarters of the security service in the northwestern Kazakh city of Aktobe, wounding three people,...

Charsadda blast strongly condemned

President, Prime Minister, Ministers, Political and religious Parties and people from different walks of life strongly condemned the twin bombing outside FC training center...

80 killed as Taliban ‘avenge bin Laden’

Pakistan's Taliban claimed their first major attack to avenge Osama bin Laden's death as 80 people were killed in a double suicide bombing on...

Five civilians killed in Afghan suicide bomb

Five civilians including two children died in a suicide bombing near a government office in Afghanistan Monday as security forces elsewhere finally ended a...

Paramedics threat to commit suicide

Punjab Paramedics Alliance (PPA) while protesting infront of the Lahore General Hospital, on Friday, threatened that a number of paramedics would commit suicide infront...

Park Lane Plaza suicide still unsolved

Eight days after the mishap the case of Muhammad Lateef, 60, found hung at his flat in Park Lane Plaza is still a mystery...

Iraq suicide car bombing kills at least 21 policemen

A suicide attacker blew up a bomb-filled car at a police station south of Baghdad, killing 21 policemen on Thursday, as Iraqi forces braced...

Iraq suicide car bomb kills 21, wounds 75 policeman

A suicide attacker blew up a bomb-filled car at a police station south of Baghdad, killing 21 policemen on Thursday, as Iraqi forces braced...

Child suicide bomber kills four in Afghanistan

A 12-year-old suicide bomber killed four people and wounded a dozen in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said. The boy -- thought to be one...

Jordan arrests brother of CIA suicide bomber

AMMAN - The brother of a Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven CIA officers in Afghanistan in 2009 has been arrested, their mother said Tuesday, after police clashed wtih Salafist protesters. "Security forces arrested my son Ayman Balawi, 36, Friday midnight when he was home, although he did not take part in Zarqa's demonstration that day," Shennara Awwad told AFP. More than 90 people, most of them policemen, were hurt on Friday when protesters from the ultra-conservative Sunni

Suicide car bombs kill 5 at Baghdad Green Zone

BAGHDAD - Two suicide car bombings killed five people and wounded 15 Monday at the entrance to Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone, where an Arab League summit is to be held next month.
Officials said the bombings occurred at around 8:30 am (0530 GMT) at the western gate of the Green Zone, which houses the offices of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi parliament and the US and British embassies. A queue of cars was waiting to enter the Green Zone when the vehicles